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Mission Statement (revised 1995) [7] BCALA Mission: The Black Caucus of the American Library Association serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services and resources to the nation's African-American community; and provides leadership for the recruitment and professional development of African-American librarians.
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.
The fastest library growth happened in urban cities such as Atlanta while rural towns, particularly in the American South, were slower to add Black libraries. [1] Andrew Carnegie and the Works Progress Administration helped establish libraries for African Americans, including at historically Black college and university campuses. [ 1 ]
Tracie D. Hall (born 1968) [1] is an American librarian, author, curator, and advocate for the arts who served as the executive director of the American Library Association from 2020 to 2023. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hall is the first African American woman to lead the association since its founding in 1876.
African Library and Information Associations and Institutions; American Association of Law Libraries; American Association of School Librarians; American Library Association; American Library Institute; Archives and Records Association; Asociación de Estados Iberoamericanos para el Desarrollo de las Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica
The Southern Negro and the Public Library: A Study of the Government and Administration of Public Library Service to Negroes in the South. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-598-49466-5. Gleason, Eliza Atkins (1945-10-01). "Facing the Dilemma of Public Library Service for Negroes". The Library Quarterly. 15 (4): 339–344. doi:10.1086/617176.
He served as the first African-American president of the Missouri Library Association in the early 1960s, as well as serving as the editor of the association's journal. [6] [7] [8] Marshall was an active participant in librarianship through the American Library Association, working to fight discrimination and segregation within the organization ...